Emacs

• Emacs and Python

Emacs for man reading

You can read man pages in emacs easily, but if you want to replace the man command with emacs you have to play a few tricks:

A script for starting emacs in man mode:

#!/bin/bash
emacs -nw --eval="(man \"$1\")" -q -l ~/.emacs-man

Where .emacs-man is your setup for reading man-pages in emacs, one thing you probably want in this is:

(setq Man-notify-method 'bully )

To open the man page as the only buffer.

Emacs Clones

My requirements: vertical split, goto-line, unicode.

QEmacs

• http://bellard.org/qemacs/
• unicode
• supports vertical split
• supports large files (something GNU emacs does not support on 32 bit platforms)
• no active development?

I am currently using this where I cannot use emacs or if I need to edit big files. It supports most of the features I use, but it is acting weird sometimes.

Others

• List of clones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs#Other_modern_forks_and_clones
• 9ne - A web based code edtior: http://robrohan.com/projects/9ne/
• jed - goto-line is named goto_line_cmd, with a menu, only horizontal split.
• joe - kill-buffer does not play well, m-x goto-line and c-g not working
• jove - only horizontal split
• zile - 8 bit clean, but no unicode, does not support vertical split